I am a first-year medical student at Drexel University College of Medicine (class of 2027). I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in computational biology in 2022. In late 2020 I joined the Kuhn Laboratory and contributed to our nuclear pore paper (Han et al., 2022) published in Developmental Cell. I helped investigate the effect of altered nucleoporin numbers on cardiovascular stress responses. My current research, in partnership with Niyatie Ammanamanchi, proposes a new approach using stable isotope 15N-thymidine to quantify new cardiomyocyte generation. I had the privilege of presenting this novel research at AHA’s 2023 Scientific Sessions held in Philadelphia, PA. Our abstract was published in Circulation Research (Bargaje et al., 2023). My continued role in this project involves analysis of 5N-thymidine retention in multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry (MIMS) mosaics and correlative confocal microscopy quantification of binucleated cardiomyocytes and cardiomyocytes with polyploid nuclei. I hope to better characterize myocardial response to disease and injury such as that in infants diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot through my research investigations.